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The female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castle, Terry, author.
- Series:
- Ideologies of desire.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Ideologies of desire
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Women and literature.
- Romanticism--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Romanticism.
- Femininity in literature.
- Sex (Psychology) in literature.
- Supernatural in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The Female Thermometer; 3 ""Amy, Who Knew my Disease"": A Psychosexual Pattern in Defoe's Roxana; 4 Lovelace's Dream; 5 ""Matters Not Fit to be Mentioned"": Fielding's The Female Husband; 6 The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and Masquerade in Eighteenth-Century England; 7 The Carnivalization of Eighteenth-Century English Narrative; 8 The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolpho; 9 Phantasmagoria and the Metaphorics of Modern Reverie; 10 Spectral Politics: Apparition Belief and the Romantic Imagination
- 11 Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its SkepticsNotes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772411-6
- 1-4237-5848-X
- 1-60256-621-6
- 1-280-44334-0
- 0-19-802427-4
- OCLC:
- 476013307
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